#art

“I realized that the camera is a tool, but it is also a way of thought.”

— David Hockney · Various interviews, 1980s-1990s

“You cannot be totally sure when you're looking at something that you're seeing it clearly. You can only be sure you're going to look at it closely.”

— David Hockney · Secret Knowledge lecture series, 2003

“I like people who have a sense of individuality. I think that's rare and it's to be admired.”

— David Hockney · Interview, circa 1990s

“Work does not interrupt inspiration. Work is what inspiration looks like from the inside.”

“Every great piece of music is a set of problems solved so well that the listener never notices the problems existed.”

“A melody that costs you nothing is worth exactly that.”

“The audience hears the finished piece. The composer lived inside every wrong version of it first.”